Stein Aerts

Also affiliated with VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, VIB.AI

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 2%percentile

4.5Author DataRank

Indexed papers

5in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 5 indexed papers attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abk2432

Top 5%

4.5DataRank

Top 5%871 citations

Jasper Janssens, Maxime De Waegeneer, Sai Saroja Kolluru, Kristofer Davie, Vincent Gardeux +95 more

Papers

Driven by 24 papers — median percentile 0. Top paper: “Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly”.

Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abk2432

Top 5%

4.5DataRank

Top 5%871 citations

Jasper Janssens, Maxime De Waegeneer, Sai Saroja Kolluru, Kristofer Davie, Vincent Gardeux +95 more

SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering

Nature Methods(2017)10.1038/nmeth.4463

N/A

1.3DataRank · unranked

6733 citations

Carmen Bravo González‐Blas, Thomas Moerman, Vân Anh Huynh-Thu, Hana Imrichova, Gert Hulselmans +11 more

Systematic benchmarking of single-cell ATAC-sequencing protocols

Nature Biotechnology(2023)10.1038/s41587-023-01881-x

N/A

1.1DataRank · unranked

52 citations

Gert Hulselmans, Christopher Flerin, Paula Soler-Vila, Albert Rafels, Valerie Christiaens +42 more

SCENIC+: single-cell multiomic inference of enhancers and gene regulatory networks

Nature Methods(2023)10.1038/s41592-023-01938-4

N/A

0.987DataRank · unranked

719 citations

Seppe De Winter, Gert Hulselmans, Nikolai Hecker, Irina Matetovici, Valerie Christiaens +5 more

Chromatin accessibility profiling methods

Nature Reviews Methods Primers(2021)10.1038/s43586-020-00008-9

N/A

0.814DataRank · unranked

227 citations

Georgi K. Marinov, Thomas Krausgruber, Lixia Pan, Alexandre P. Marand, Stefano Secchia +7 more

LifeTime and improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine

Nature(2020)10.1038/s41586-020-2715-9

N/A

0.747DataRank · unranked

144 citations

Geneviève Almouzni, Stanislaw A. Gorski, Stein Aerts, Ido Amit, Michela G. Bertero +178 more

Evaluating methods for the prediction of cell-type-specific enhancers in the mammalian cortex

Cell Genomics(2025)10.1016/j.xgen.2025.100879

N/A

0.425DataRank · unranked

16 citations

Niklas Kempynck, Nathan R. Zemke, Saroja Somasundaram, Seppe De Winter, Marcus Hooper +29 more

CREsted: modeling genomic and synthetic cell type-specific enhancers across tissues and species

10.1101/2025.04.02.646812

N/A

0.396DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Seppe De Winter, Casper H. Blaauw, Vasileios Konstantakos, Sam Dieltiens, Eren Can Ekşi +9 more

Cross-species cellular mapping and humanization of Fcγ receptors to advance antibody modeling

Science Immunology(2026)10.1126/sciimmunol.ady7328

N/A

0.292DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Dorine Sichien, Katrien Van der Borght, Justine Van Moorleghem, Sofie Van Gassen, Joseph Jorssen +49 more

Synaptic deregulation of cholinergic projection neurons causes olfactory dysfunction across five fly Parkinsonism models

eLife(2024)10.7554/elife.98348

N/A

0.250DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Jasper Janssens, Nils Schoovaerts, Sabine Kuenen, Carles Calatayud, Sandra F. Gallego +10 more

Evaluating Methods for the Prediction of Cell Type-Specific Enhancers in the Mammalian Cortex

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.08.21.609075

N/A

0.241DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Niklas Kempynck, Nathan R. Zemke, Saroja Somasundaram, Seppe De Winter, Marcus Hooper +29 more

Synaptic deregulation of cholinergic projection neurons causes olfactory dysfunction across five fly Parkinsonism models

eLife(2025)10.7554/elife.98348.3

N/A

0.208DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Jasper Janssens, Nils Schoovaerts, Sabine Kuenen, Carles Calatayud, Sandra F. Gallego +10 more

Neuronal identity defines α-synuclein and tau toxicity

Neuron(2023)10.1016/j.neuron.2023.02.033

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

59 citations

Sabine Kuenen, Nils Schoovaerts, Natalie Kaempf, Jeevanjot Singh, Jasper Janssens +7 more

Processed data supplementary to "Systematic benchmarking of single-cell ATAC sequencing protocols"

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)(2022)10.5281/zenodo.5850231

Top 100%

0DataRank

Top 100%0 citations

Christopher Flerin, Paula Soler, Albert Rafels, Gert Hulselmans, Valerie Christiaens +25 more

DrosophilaVoltage-Gated Sodium Channels Are Only Expressed in Active Neurons and Are Localized to Distal Axonal Initial Segment-like Domains

Journal of Neuroscience(2020)10.1523/jneurosci.0142-20.2020

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

76 citations

Jasper Janssens, Pei-Tseng Lee, Burak Tepe, Paul C. Marcogliese, Samira Makhzami +4 more

Actuation Enhances Patterning in Human Neural Tube Organoids

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.09.22.308411

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Brian Daza, Gregorius Rustandi, Miguel Ángel Berrocal-Rubio, Benjamin Gorissen, Suresh Poovathingal +12 more

Actuation enhances patterning in human neural tube organoids

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-22952-0

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

92 citations

Brian Daza, Gregorius Rustandi, Miguel Ángel Berrocal-Rubio, Benjamin Gorissen, Suresh Poovathingal +14 more

Neuronal identity defines α-synuclein and tau toxicity

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.06.24.496376

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Sabine Kuenen, Nils Schoovaerts, Natalie Kaempf, Jasper Janssens, Jef Swerts +6 more

Processed data supplementary to "Systematic benchmarking of single-cell ATAC sequencing protocols"

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)(2022)10.5281/zenodo.5850232

Top 100%

0DataRank

Top 100%0 citations

Christopher Flerin, Paula Soler, Albert Rafels, Gert Hulselmans, Valerie Christiaens +25 more

Synaptic deregulation of cholinergic projection neurons causes olfactory dysfunction across 5 fly Parkinsonism models

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.03.11.532176

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Jasper Janssens, Nils Schoovaerts, Sabine Kuenen, Carles Calatayud, Sandra F. Gallego +10 more

Developmental transcriptional control of mitochondrial homeostasis is required for activity-dependent synaptic connectivity

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.06.11.544500

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Mercedes Bengochea, Carlos Pascual-Caro, Noemi Asfogo, Sara Fonseca-Topp, Natasha Danda +9 more

Temporal transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial morphology primes activity-dependent circuit connectivity

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-62908-2

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Mahéva Andriatsilavo, Mercedes Bengochea, Carlos Pascual-Caro, Noemi Asfogo, Sara Fonseca-Topp +10 more

Circuit specific specialization of human basal ganglia astrocytes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.64898/2025.12.19.695583

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Nelson Johansen, Niklas Kempynck, Wubin Ding, Meghan A. Turner, Aaron D. Garcia +19 more

Author response: Synaptic deregulation of cholinergic projection neurons causes olfactory dysfunction across 5 fly Parkinsonism models

(2025)10.7554/elife.98348.2.sa0

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Jasper Janssens, Nils Schoovaerts, Sabine Kuenen, Carles Calatayud Aristoy, Sandra F. Gallego +10 more

Stein Aerts

Indexed papers

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